Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it - Descartes

Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication
- Leonardo da Vinci

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings - Robert Collier

God always takes the simplest way - Einstein

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts - Willard Gibbs

Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity - Walt Whitman

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art - Frederic Chopin

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures
and some books, I live without envy - Lope de Vega

I find working with glass meditative, almost therapeutic. I can leave the world behind, and focus... The simplicity of form, the drama of rich, intense colour, the joy of challenge, and the challenge of endurance... The piece, when it is over, is not what is made, but how it is made - Andrew Kuntz

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art - Frank Lloyd Wright

When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid,
and the fragrance of rock - Stephen Mitchell

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art - Albrecht Durer

The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden
because of their simplicity and familiarity - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance - Jon Franklin

The point in life is to know what's enough - why envy those otherwold immortals? With the happiness held in one inch-square heart you can fill the whole space between heaven and earth - Gensei

The empty garden is already full - Michael P. Garofalo

To know you have enough is to be rich - Lao-Tzu

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak - Hans Hofmann

To lose patience is to lose the battle - Mahatma Gandhi

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes
that give our lives power and vividness and joy - Richard Halloway

To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world - Charles Hawthorne

You can paint an entire painting with one stroke - Quang Ho

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy - Winslow Homer

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer - Paul Klee

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials - Henri Matisse

By painting a thing as simply as possible, you can get to the spirit of it. And then subject and artist reveal themselves to each other - Charles Movalli

My ability to see the world in terms of abstract shapes and patterns of color and value is due to my work on location, where I quickly learned that I must simplify "things" into "shapes" - Randall Sexton

What I wish to do is make painting objective, to bring it back to its source – where only painting remains, emptied of all extraneous matter – to the point at which painting is pure sensation...to say as much as possible with as few elements as possible - Claude Tousignant

How do we find simplicity and direct purpose in the midst of chaotic communication? By learning to subtract the distractions, by shaking the dust off the crystal, by seeing through the invisible, briefly, focusing on the focus point... - Mona Youssef

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute - Josh Billings

Simplicity is graceful, unambiguous and careless - tobto

Obvious things are perceived is not obvious - tobto

before you start to do something, you should consider what not to do. @tobto